The words this site does not use
This page does not print them either, and that is not an oversight. An exception for the page that explains the rule is exactly how a rule stops applying: one section becomes one page becomes "in context". Each is described closely enough that anybody in the field will know which term is meant.
| The term that is not used | What is used instead | Why it was rejected |
|---|---|---|
| The contested encryption term — two words, the first of them a number, widely used in storage marketing | End-to-end encrypted as the primary term, client-side encryption as the mechanical one | The company that popularised it in storage marketing retired it, a widely cited cryptographer's critique calls the usage actively harmful, and as a search term it is dominated by an unrelated meaning from cryptography |
| The contested recall term — the human faculty, borrowed | Durable — resumes exactly where it left off, losslessly | Eight or more funded vendors contest it, two claim it as a category rather than a feature, the consumer meaning was captured by the largest model providers this year and carries a privacy connotation that fights an encryption product, and it implies lossy summarisation of a lossless product |
| The contested autonomy term — the adjective everyone reached for in 2025 | Say what the thing actually does | The analyst forecast since June 2025 is that over forty per cent of such projects will be cancelled by end 2027, the practice of applying it loosely reached corporate governance disclosure commentary in April 2026, and the closest competitor pointedly avoids it |
| The absolute form of the tamper claim | Tamper evident, given a witness | A rewritten hash chain verifies against itself. Tampering is detectable only when another party already holds an older hash — the witness is a second clone, which makes handing somebody a read key the act that makes the claim true. Append-only is stated as a policy, not a property |
All four are checked mechanically on every build: if any of them reaches a page of this site, the release stops. {{claim:three-banned-words}} {{claim:tamper-evident-witness}}
This is a judgement and it is reversible. The rule's own scope is copy that faces a customer, and a page about vocabulary is arguably not that. If naming them here is preferred, it is one edit in one place — on somebody's ruling, not on a builder's preference.